Why Cohen Guilty Plea May Scare Don Jr.

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Now that Trump’s personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen has admitted to lying to Congress in a plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller, it raises new questions about Donald Trump Jr.’s apparent lies in front of a Senate committee.

Cohen pleaded guilty to making false statements to Congress about a Trump real estate project in Russia. The prosecutors who secured the plea deal are part of Mueller’s investigation into Russian election interference.

If Mueller is going after people for lying to Congress, Trump Jr. should be very worried — because he appears to have lied when he testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee in May.

In his testimony, Trump Jr. denied that foreign governments either offered or provided direct assistance to the Trump campaign. But this was false, Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) explained when he demanded that Trump Jr. return to the Senate and provide further details on his statements.

After Trump Jr. spoke to the Senate, the New York Times reported that George Nader, an official emissary working on behalf of princes from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, met with Trump Jr. at Trump Tower before the 2016 election.

At that meeting, Trump Jr. was reportedly told that the princes wanted to help Trump win the election.

In a letter written to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Coons noted that Trump Jr. did not deny the meeting occurred even though it showed his testimony was untruthful.